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Sophism: founded in 669 AD by an Armenian woman, who was born into Nobility, yet forced into a convent. She later escaped the church and wrote several texts that where considered "Heretical" by the Orthodox Church, and was sentenced to burn at the stake in 675 AD for her preaching. This mytardom would cause her relgion to become even more popular, and she would later be given the title "Holy Sophia." The Sophian Bible contains the entire Christian bible, but also several "Sophian texts" making it over twice as long. In Sophian Doctrine there are six holy gods and six unholy devils. Of the six gods, half are male (god the father, god the son, god the holy spirit,) and the other half are female (Goddess the mother, Goddess the Daughter, and the Holy "Sophia" or knowledge). They are opposed by the inverted six (often mistaken for a 9 due to the similarity in Indian Numerals.) The male Satan the Father of Hell, Satan the Son, The Satanic Spirit, and the Female Satan the Mother of Hell, Satan the daughter, and The Satanic, or Forbidden Knowledge. Although drawn primarily from Christianity, and Gnostism, it also draws heavily from nieghboring religons such as Zorroastrianism, and Manicheaism. The Religon's sybolic "69", often mistaken for "sixty nine", instead of it's religous meaning of "six in ballance with an inteverted six" is also believed to be taken from the Taoist concept of Ying and Yang. Under Sophism, Jesus Christ is just the latest "God the Son" created when The Holy Spirit enters a male baby inside his mother. Past "Sons of god" include Jewish Prophets, such as Adam, Moses, Abraham, Enoch, etc. Simlarly past incarnations of the Holy Knowledge included the Virgin Mary, to whom the Holy Sophia herself claimed to be the successor of, Eve, and other "good" female figures of the bible. Simlarly, when the Satanic Spirit or Satanic Knowledge enter a human baby at birth, an "Anti-Messiah" is created. Judas the Betrayer is considered the last Male Anti-Messiah, while the last Female Anti-Messiah was Salome. Notably the Sophists reject the Cross, as they veiw the Crucifixion to be the day of evil's greatest triumph. Sophist Clergy is made up of couples of married men and women, with only male clergy communing with the male gods, and only female clergy communing with the female gods. Marriage outside the church stritly forbiden for clergy, and new clergy can't join if they're already married. Clergy are expected to marry as soon as they enter the church, stay married until the death of their partner, and remary soon after the death of a partner to maintain "holy ballance". Sophist veiw of the afterlife is "Heaven for the extremly good, Hell for the extermly evil, reincarnation on earth for the neutral." Cremation is the perfered method to dispose of the dead.
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